La Muga Caula

Brossa Dada : an endless landscape of action

Poster: “Illusional Delusion”. Concept and action: NON GRATA.
Photo: Joan Casellas-Arxiu Aire.

Everything finishes and everything begins again and we have arrived up to here, it is our END . The day that the smoke of Marcel Duchamp’s cigar mixed with the steam of the Caula, our adventure was spawned. Many achievements and artistic inventions animate this hot border with the gift of perpetual movement…

Joan Brossa, Catalan readymade artist , was born a hundred years ago the “day” in which Duchamp made two monumental claptraps: to paint moustaches to the Gioconda ensuring that “she has a hot ass” and “sell” to a collector in New York 50cc of Paris air. We sell air from the Caula and undisciplined approach our teachers: Duchamp and Elsa von Freitag Loringhoven, Man Ray, Mina Loy, Dalí, Maruja Mallo and for the last meeting Joan Brossa in the year of his centenary.

Under the influence of Dada, Brossa invented the square carriage wheel, the post theatre and a seven sided dice and another one rounded, even more difficult; like Duchamp himself, without making a single performance, he became master of it and here we harbor a secret: the art of action is not a kinetic or futuristic question, nor even less realistic, but real if it has been 5,475 days of action by more than 250 artists from around the world. With these last artists the moustachioed Gioconda will continue throwing the seven sided dice; we will play this last game with joy as we imagine the new spaces of this landscape of endless action. A door that closes and opens at the same time or a paradoxical square wheel of the Catalan Republic Carriage that suddenly slides like a sleigh on the light that has been given to us…